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General Discussion / Re: Migrating from pfSense

« on: February 04, 2021, 06:36:27 pm »

2. See https://github.com/opnsense/update#opnsense-bootstrap -- installing FreeBSD 12.1 ZFS and installing OPNsense afterwards. You can even drop the preconfigured config to /conf/config.xml so it'll bootstrap right into the final config. It's not a super-tedious procedure.
Cheers,
Franco

Awesome, glad I found this...going to do this later while I get my test system up and running for the migration!

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Hardware and Performance / Re: Are there any USA Based Turnkey Hardware Vendors?

« on: February 02, 2021, 09:05:47 pm »

Would like to know the same thing. Did you ever find a reseller?

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General Discussion / Re: Another user making the switch

« on: February 02, 2021, 08:33:12 pm »

Thanks for the welcome! Yes, that was a red flag for us too, and by looking at their forums many of us feel the same way.

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General Discussion / Re: Announce: new OPNsense community repository

« on: February 02, 2021, 08:31:46 pm »

This is very cool and hope to try out soon! Great work!

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General Discussion / Another user making the switch

« on: February 02, 2021, 08:18:30 pm »

Hi all,

I'm sure you've seen an increase of users from pf on your forum and I'm another one . I hope this is the right place to ask my question, if not mods please feel free to move. 

I have about 10 deployments with their support for my clients and while I don't mind that they are charging for commercial use, I don't like the fact they are closing the source code. That's an important piece for my management.

My support subscription runs out with them in March of this year and when that happens I will be looking to move to OPNsense. I have read through numerous posts on this forum as well as the documentation and I think the migration will be pretty straight forward.

I see that support is available to purchase which is great as that is also a requirement. I also see that you have a business edition that has multi-instance management and a selective upgrade path, which is great and a plus! My question is when I switch to OPNsense should I use the business edition for the extra features and support discounts? I am pretty sure both are open source and I would have no pushback from my management team on the extra money for the business edition. If business edition isn't open source, I will just move to OPNsense as there is no concern about the project being abandoned.

Thanks in advance for your help!